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Welcome to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Low Incidence Strategies Consultant: Sheila Henson.
You can contact me by phone (502) 647-3533 Ext. 223 or email.

UDL is an educational approach to curriculum and instruction using technology to enable students with diverse learning needs to be successful in the classroom, see http://www.cast.org

Read and Write Gold

Read and Write Gold is a revolutionary new software that provides many helpful tools allowing students to better access the curriculum. The full benefits of this software can be seen on their website (http://www.texthelp.com) or by viewing some of the documents listed below. The documents are provided from the Kentucky Department of Education and are intended for use by school districts implementing UDL.

Read and Write Gold Reading Support (Word)
Read and Write Gold Writing Support (Word)
Read and Write Gold Version 7 Overview (PowerPoint)
Read and Write Gold Version 7 Training Guide (Word)
Etext Sources (Word)
Interesting UDL Articles (PDF)
UDL Training and Implementation Resources (Link)

Read and Write Video Tutorials will allow users to view a video tour of the selected feature. The majority of these videos are for Read and Write Gold Version 6.0. and were created by Texthelp, the maker of Read and Write Gold.
Version 7.0 consists of one video explaining how to open and begin using the program and how to view the video tutorials imbedded in the program. Many of the features in both versions 6.0 and 7.0 are very similar however if you would want to view a version 6 tutorial.

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